Repetition  Metaphor/Simile Rhyme Structure Alliteration Symbols Personification

Imagery  Diction: Self-Justifying, Both Positive and Negative Diction,

Perfect Imperfection

Anderson Chen - B Block

Be perfect, society said.

Color inside the lines, my teachers said.

Aim high and grind, my boss said.

Stop wasting life, my parents said.

I need to be perfect.

I need, a perfect poem, perfect college, perfect life

I need a perfect home, perfect marriage, perfect wife.

Perfection, sounds wonderful

Like Eve's apple

Smiling and waving

Yet unreal, and                                 untouchable

Perfection, sounds achievable.

Yet making me depleted and defeated.

Driving me crazy in tears by fears,

Comparing ideas to peers that only existed here.

Perfection, prison of

emotions, decisions reflections and deliberation.

Tape that hides the cracks, but never fix the cracks.

Throw off my apple, wipe off my tears, get off the prison and tear off the tape.

Reveal my cracks, love my cracks,

let the light shine through the cracks.

I don’t need, a perfect poem, perfect college, perfect life

I don’t need a perfect home, perfect marriage, perfect wife.

                I don’t need to color inside the lines.

   All I need is “I”.  

The Never Ending Summer

Anderson Chen - B Block

Summer, the shortest season,

Waves at me once,

As if saying hi and bye at once.

Summer, the longest season,

Smudges of memories forever stays on my chest,

Nostalgic harmony of the west forever plays in my chest. 

In the homeland of Bigfoot,

I jumped into their creek of consciousness,

Climbed their mountains of white dust,

And Listened to their orchestra of thousand wings.

As Harmony stops,

The alarm pierces my ears,

Sending chills to my bones.

Time to go to school, Next summer will arrive soon.